A year ago Since the last time that Zorrilla saw his stands populated, 12 months that have passed and not exactly flying. March 8, 2020 Few of us imagined when we went to the stadium to witness the match corresponding to matchday 27 of the league that this would be the last time there would be an audience in the Valladolid stadium and in any other stadium in Spain … and practically in the rest of the planet so far , March 8, 2021.
That March 8, the coronavirus had already entered our lives almost on tiptoe and the first figures were beginning to be a bombardment. The cancellation of events and tournaments was already a reality. But the power of football seemed that it could even with the virus … but nothing could be further from reality, as we could see in the following three months in which the country was paralyzed and football did not return until June to play the 11 matchdays that remained.
That March 8, 2020, Athletic visited Zorrilla. The public attendance was 21,632 spectators, a figure that was the usual average since the beginning of the campaign with the more than 24,000 subscribers that the club had as the highest figure in the history of Blanquivioleta. The pandemic has logically caused that there are currently no number of subscribers.
Although the least that day was the result, Athletic won a resounding 1-4 with goals from Unai, Raúl García, Wiliams and Córdoba, while for Real Valladolid Sandro scored a goal, one of the few who scored in his time. white and violet.
Since then, 21 games have been played at José Zorrilla, 19 in the League, one in the Cup (Levante) and one corresponding to the City of Valladolid Trophy that had precisely Athletic as a visitor taking the title in the penalty shoot-out after registering a 2-2 draw in 90 minutes, all of them on goal closed.
J. L. Rojí